Новости за 27.02.2016

Almost four years after it was given international status, the Lucknow airport is all geared up to spread its wings in a big way.

The Punjab and Haryana high court on Saturday asked the Haryana government to issue appointment orders to candidates who were successful in the Haryana Civil Services (HCS) exam held in 2004.

Lucknow University (LU) is introducing a five-year integrated Masters in Business Administration (MBA) course from the new academic session.It will be the first such course in the state.

DNA sampling has confirmed role of a rickshaw puller and a caddy in rape and murder of the Class XII girl student, whose decomposed body was found from the thickets along Haider Canal on Lohia Path, said Rajesh Pandey, senior superintendent of police (SSP), on Saturday.

Scientific institutes in the city will be celebrating 'Science Day' on February 29 as the day is falling on Sunday this year.

A festival of street food opened in the city on Saturday offering opportunity to savour delights ranging from chaat to baati chokha.

An unidentified body was recovered under Sarojini Nagar police station.According to police, body of a man aged around 44 years was found from a ditch in Ramnagar Colony around 3pm on Saturday.

Amid thousands of followers and mourners from all communities of Lucknow, well known Shia cleric Maulana Mirza Mohammad Athar who breathed his last in Delhi on Friday, was buried in his hometown Lucknow on Saturday.

It's easy to lose a trinket but not when you lose a treasure.

Four women from France, who toured across India in an auto-rickshaw, will be among 45 to be presented the Rani Laxmibai Award by the Uttar Pradesh government on International Women's Day on March 8.

Attempting to download his online admit card for the examination scheduled on March 1, students lost up to six hours as Lucknow University's examination website, threw up technical glitches that slowed the process, that began on Friday night.

Panaji: Goan cricket has never had it so good.

Panaji: Goa has already left for Nagpur to take part in the final round of the National Football Championship for the Santosh Trophy.

Would you like to taste a chocolate-dipped insect? Did you know that the British soldiers' uniforms were dyed in red colour extracted from an insect that feeds of cacti? Pieces of history and trivia about the insect world attracted about a 100-odd schoolchildren to the insectarium at the Veterinary College campus near Hebbal on Saturday.

Visitors to Sinhagad fort can expect a safer ride through its seven-km ghat section.

A television show featuring shocking crime stories inspired by real-life events seems to have influenced a 19-year-old youth's decision to rob a Bhosari-based homemaker at knifepoint.

A woman moneylender was arersted on Friday for allegedly threatening an elderly woman and her family members for extra money despite the latter repaying a loan of Rs 50,000 with interest.

Minister of state for social justice Dilip Kamble on Friday said that the government has made attracting more investment towards the state and providing appropriate training to the youth to ensure supply of skilled manpower to industries a top priority.

Anil Jaisingh Kale (55), a driver attached to the Indapur tehsil office, was riding on a scooter on the service road at Galandwadi village in Indapur when he was allegedly mowed down by a speeding SUV near Pune on Thursday at 4 pm.

The Nationalist Congress Party has objected to Pune municipal commissioner Kunal Kumar's London tour, coinciding with the presentation of the civic budget on February 29.

Thieves struck at a hospital, a PMC office and a credit cooperative society at Market Yard on the intervening night of Tuesday and Wednesday.The collective cash stolen is Rs 86,000.

Yet another delay in effecting the Right to Education (RTE) admissions for 25% reserved seats has made the activists wary of the outcome this season which begins in June.